8 days in Portugal-5-11 to 5/18/2022
Day 1-Lisbon Arrival/Igreja Sao Cristovao Praça da Figueira, Confeitaria National Praça de Comércio Streets in Baixa and Alfama Dinner at Farol De Santa Luzia |
Day 2-Lisbon Lisbon Cathedral Church De Sao Vincente de Fora Lisbon National Pantheon Lunch at Time Out Market Walking around Dinner at Boi-Cavalo |
Day 3-Lisbon Belém Tower Upper level Jeronimos Monastery Upper level/High Choir Church of Santa Maria Dinner at Basque |
Day 4-Faro Old town Old town continuation Church of San Pedro Dinner at Villa Adentro |
Day 5-Faro/Albufeira Farmer Market Sao Rafael Beach Lunch at Rocha Palha Old town, Albufeira Stoll in Faro Dinner at Pigs & Cows |
Day 6-Faro |
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7-Beja/Lisbon
Lunch-Adega 25 Abril |
Day 8-Peniche/Lisbon |
Day 3- Basque-Chef's menu-5/13/2022
The next course is brought out on a wooden tray and then served to our table.
Fried brioche, smoked eel croquettes, pickled onion and chive emulsion.
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The brioche was fried so the exterior was crunchy and so tasty.
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Hoa also ordered a bottle of red wine.
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The interior of the brioche was rich and the smoked eel filling was simply delicious. I could probably eat 10 of these.
From our table we could see the chef preparing our next course.
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Grilled mussels with smoky flavors.
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The mussels were very tasty and has a very nice smoky flavors.
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We polished the whole dish including the sauce- Cheers!
The next course was loaded into a wooden tray and brought to our table.
The tray looks so impressive.
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Our waitress proceed to pour water on top of a layer of seaweed inside the tray and as you can see a formation of fog rising up.
How cool is this?
Rock fish served with "Bilbaina" sauce, scallops in brown butter foam, chives emulsion, red Pequillo peppers, potatoes and mushrooms.
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The rock fish has a nice consistency, we also loved the scallops in a rich brown butter with chives emulsion.
Chef preparing our next dish.
Chef inspecting the dish before sending it out to our table.
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Our waitress brought out a grill to our table.
Pork Spare Ribs confit and finished on charcoal.
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OMG, the meat just melted in our mouth! So delicious.
It was served with heart of Romaine lettuce and a tomato salsa. Refreshing and light.
Table set up for desserts.
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Coffee for both of us.
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Chocolate soufflé with gelato and crème Anglaise.
Cannot go wrong with ending our meal with a tasty Chocolate soufflé with gelato and crème Anglaise.
Loved everything here!
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At the end of our meal, the chef stopped by to se if we liked the meal and we chit chat a bit. It was very nice of him to give us a few minutes of his time.
Overall, we had a great meal here, excellent service, and the ambiance was relax and very friendly.
NEXT.... Day 4- Faro, Old City